Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-25

womans suffrage this year than during any O
year In the past There Is No q LEGISLATURE In
Ger she said. before which there Is not resosu-
ton, favoring womans sannage. HIS In
the New York AN comsitusouI convention.
as saS are or sSns % p e
Knights Of Labor or other reformers who arefavor-
abe TO us so that we may get recognition. From
dates getting the most votes win be the deegaiss,
10 You see one OF these win be OF one OF the two
great parties ana one OF the other and the third
bound 10 be friendly 10 our cause Men who are
lar enough advanced In thong 60 be land labor
mand There Is co - see sSe ., our eo S
theSe questions and the woman question We are
We, very Wen satisfied with the progress we are max
cured the right 10 vote on an school matters and
as nearly every oifcia OF the state has something
eral suffrage SO the best lawyers of the slate
have decided So we have made bic stride therr
But there VIII oe resolution introduced TO give
US full and complete suffrage spoke in all the
congressional districts In Wisconsin in October
and In those OF Kansas I'm November TO Immense
these states is very encouraging. Al every one ~
my mass meetings In Kansas took a vote as 10
the approval or disapproyal OF the acuon OF sena-
tor Ingalls, In voting disfranchise the women OF
Washington Territory, and there was unanimous
disapproval OF his action. The meetings were from
posed or both mem aod ana wee con-
Island, Pennsylvania, and indeed throughout all
the northern states we are making good prugrcss
We are making converts among women who had
never given the matter thought before. Next fan
j shall canvass four states, speaking In the CON
they can nnSence the essson q m uss 81 S, a1
gress The convention In this city next year vii
be an International convention Thst viii be tho
suffrage movement and We propose 60 have p1es-
ent at the convention representatives from the
foreign nat1om"
WHAT HAS nxxN-Aosolnlmuxp.
The reporter called Miss Anthony's attention to
the assertion that nothing had bsen accomplished
by the eighteen national conventions held g
washington.
she replied that while they had not as vet
acSomRns as Their great object OF gettane Al
great deal that would ultimately lead 60 thai
Each convention" she said stakes US farther ON
an extent that they could not be educated other
other way Dc reached. Why, IL We had put ali our
stantly, we could not have brought our cause
before the people there as &c has been by Senator
Palmer speech We sent OF 10000 copies OF that
speech; don't know how many he sent 80 it A.
elsewhere. We have sent out $1,000 OF Senator
Blair's speeches tel YOU the speech OF a United
ton. IL is in this way we have accomplished
much through these annual conventions
w, We have y,., reached all the people OF
resolutions before Congress; we have had con-
gresSional committees and hearings befor,. them.
the papers have published long reports OF these
hearings and OF the speeches made. IL has gone
everywhere. We could never have got before the
people so wen in any other way. In 1893, when
the question Of the Fourteenth Amendment WAS
before Congress, we wanted TO strike out the word
''male' In the proposed amendment, 50 that there
might be no distinction as 70 SEX. Twenty thous-
the democrats espoused our cause for party res-
sons. We then got nine votes and tl,is re-
minds me, " she continued that we have another
friend elected 70 the Senate-Mr. stewart. He
was one Of the nine who voted with us then and
he made splendid speech for IN,
BY 1871 We had advanced further and
IN that year we got q report by Gen Butler In
favor o. our right TO vote under the Fourteenth
and was arrested for illegal voting you VIII re-
member.
In 1876 the Supreme Court decided that women
had no right 70 vote under the Fourteenth
amendment, and since then we have devuted our
selves TO trying TO secure a sixteenth amendment
There is an erroneous impression that we are ASK
ing Congress to give us the night 20 vote Thai,
OF course, is not 80. What we ask is for a SIX
teenth amendment TO be submitted 20 the states.
Well, in - We got step further. We then gut
our 1rsJ favorable report In the Senate-made by
Mr. Hoar. In 81 we got reports I'm both houses
m ~ , y, Ia, nme se , snS mnoS ln me noue
Now we have senator Blair's report and speech,
and we are sending them all over the cuuntry
" all sS,s go So snSsg the We ss the
national conventions DO"
MISS ANTRoNYs RECEPTION
Between three and four hundred people called o.
Miss Anthony at the Riggs house lAyt evening.
Miss Anthony received In the red parior, assisted
by her two nfeces, Misses Lucy and Maud An
thony, MIS-. Lille Devereaux Blake MIA Shat
tuck, Mrs. Harbert and several others A table
was spread with abundant refreshments In the
private dining room, and there was quite O profu-
sion or floral decorations All the speakers ana
delegates to the convention are stopping st ths
Riggs house.